Laughlin-like states in bosonic and fermionic atomic synthetic ladders

M Calvanese Strinati, E Cornfeld, D Rossini… - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
The combination of interactions and static gauge fields plays a pivotal role in our
understanding of strongly correlated quantum matter. Cold atomic gases endowed with a …

Floquet engineering tunable periodic gauge fields and simulating real topological phases in a cold-alkaline-earth-metal-atom optical lattice

W Wang, Z Zhang, GX Tang, T Wang - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
We propose to synthesize tunable periodic gauge fields via Floquet engineering cold-
alkaline-earth-metal atoms in one-dimensional optical lattice. The artificial magnetic flux is …

Quantum phases of interacting bosons on biased two-leg ladders with magnetic flux

X Qiao, XB Zhang, Y Jian, AX Zhang, ZF Yu, JK Xue - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
The realization and detection of various phase transitions in interacting two-leg bosonic flux
ladders are at the frontier of the present theoretical and experimental research in condensed …

Pretopological fractional excitations in the two-leg flux ladder

M Calvanese Strinati, S Sahoo, K Shtengel, E Sela - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Topological order, the hallmark of fractional quantum Hall states, is primarily defined in
terms of ground-state degeneracy on higher-genus manifolds, eg, the torus. We investigate …

Stückelberg interferometry using spin-orbit-coupled cold atoms in an optical lattice

S Liang, ZC Li, W Zhang, L Zhou, Z Lan - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
Time evolution of spin-orbit-coupled cold atoms in an optical lattice is studied, with a two-
band energy spectrum having two avoided crossings. A force is applied such that the atoms …

Enhancement of crossed Andreev reflection in a Kitaev ladder connected to normal metal leads

R Nehra, DS Bhakuni, A Sharma… - Journal of Physics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We study nonlocal transport in a two-leg Kitaev ladder connected to two normal metals. The
coupling between the two legs of the ladder when the legs are maintained at a (large) …

Topological phases in frustrated synthetic ladders with an odd number of legs

S Barbarino, M Dalmonte, R Fazio, GE Santoro - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
The realization of the Hofstadter model in a strongly anisotropic ladder geometry has now
become possible in one-dimensional optical lattices with a synthetic dimension. In this work …

Nonlinear Landau-Zener-Stückelberg-Majorana tunneling and interferometry of extended Bose-Hubbard flux ladders

X Qiao, XB Zhang, Y Jian, YE Ma, R Gao, AX Zhang… - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
The nonlinear Landau-Zener-Stückelberg-Majorana (LZSM) tunneling dynamics and
interferometry of an extended Bose-Hubbard flux ladder are studied. Based on the mean …

Phase controlled metal–insulator transition in multi-leg quasiperiodic optical lattices

SK Maiti, S Sil, A Chakrabarti - Annals of Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
A tight-binding model of a multi-leg ladder network with a continuous quasiperiodic
modulation in both the site potential and the inter-arm hopping integral is considered. The …

Hofstadter butterfly in optical multilayers

RF Dutra, MS Vasconcelos, D Anselmo - Optical Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
This research focuses on the theoretical examination of the propagation of electromagnetic
waves in a multilayer structure in which the refractive index in each medium is modulated by …